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All you need to know about the 68th Dubrovnik Summer Festival Dubrovnik Summer Festival

All you need to know about the 68th Dubrovnik Summer Festival

Written by  Ivana Smilovic Jul 07, 2017

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival will open for 68th time on Monday, July 10th, at 9 pm in front of Saint Blasius Church. This festival is a must visit during your summer stay in Dubrovnik and it always has a lot to offer to tourists, as well as to locals.

If you are into art, music, theatre or culture in general you will surely find something in the rich and varied program in a festival that lasts for an impressive 47 days until August 25th. The program brings at least one event a day, with more than eighty theatrical, musical, opera, ballet, folklore, film and other performances taking place in more than fifteen site-specific venues in Dubrovnik.

THIS YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS

One of the oldest European festivals has two theatre premieres this year - two plays dealing with an individual's freedom of action within strict limitations of the given social reality: Miroslav Krleza's Messrs Glembay, and a Hrvoje Ivankovic dramaturgical adaptation of the biography of- and texts by Marin Drzic, Dubrovnik's great supporter of freedom of speech, entitled Marin Drzic – Victory over the Enemies.  

The hit play La bottega del caffè and Othello - which enthralled critics and the festival's audience alike, and for which extra tickets were requested - will be part of this summer's repertoire again. Theatre guest performances will include the Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb last year's hit play by Tena Stivicic, Three Winters, directed by Ivica Buljan.

The music and stage programme will include a premiere of Handel's Orlando. Ballet lovers will have the opportunity to enjoy the most popular „white ballet“ of all time and a synonym of classical ballet art, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, choreographed by the famous Vladimir Malakhov and produced by the Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb.

Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra will perform a programme consisting of the standard repertoire and the works by Dubrovnik composers.  This year the festival continues with the program Key to the Future which features young laureates of prestigious music competitions. It will be opened by the finalist of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition pianist Dmitri Shishkin.

For the more detailed, day by day programme, visit the Dubrovnik Summer Festival official website.

GOOD TO KNOW – OPENING NIGHT

Opening night of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival is a big event in Dubrovnik, so it can get really crowded!

It all starts on July 10th, when there will be a traffic ban on the area around the historic core of the City from 7 pm to 3 am, so the smart move would be to visit the Old City with a bus or a taxi, that are excluded from the ban.

Traffic on urban routes will be significantly enhanced during the opening night.
-    Line 1 that runs from the central bus station to Pile will run every 10 minutes, with the last departure at 3:05

-    Lines 1A, 3, 4 and 6 will run until 3:20 am

-    Lines 1B and 8 will run until 3:05 am

All the last departures are made from Pile.

WANT A TICKET?

Tickets for the Festival may be obtained online at the official website or at festival box offices in the Old City of Dubrovnik.

The Voice of Dubrovnik

THE VOICE OF DUBROVNIK


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